Milk-strainer



(No Model.)

B. ANDERSON.

' MILK STBAINER.'

No. 367,776. I Patented Aug. 9, 1887.

WITJv SSES UNIT STATES I PATENT OFFICE,

RoEERr LAWRENCE ANDERSON, or TOPEKA, KANSAS.

MILK-STRAINER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 367,776, dated-August 9, 1887.

Application filed November 13, 1886. Serial No. 2lB,'Ifi4. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it'known that I, ROBERT LAWRENCE AN- DERsoN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Topeka, in the county of Shawnee and State of Kansas, have invented certain new i and useful Improvements in Milk-Strainers;

proved milk-strainer.

My invention relates to that class of milk-.

strai nerswhieh is separate from the vessel containing the milk, and which can be used in connection with the ordinary vessel, and in which a piece of wire-cloth or other perfo rated material is .removably secured in place by being clamped between two flanges; and it consists in the improved construction and eom-- bination of parts of such a strainer, as will be hereinafter more particularly described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the numeral 1 indicates the body of the strainer, to the.

upper edge of which the upper edge of an in ternally-screwthreadedsleeve or collar, 2, is

' secured either rigidly by means of solder or similar material or removably, and the lower edge of this collar is formed with an inwardlyprojeeting flange, 8,.

An externally-screwthreaded collar, 4, having an outwardly-projecting upperfiange, 5,

me n inwardly-projecting lower flange, 6,

fits into the female threaded collar 2, and a disk, 7, of wire-eloth or other perforated material, has its edges clamped between the flanges 3 and Q at the lower edges of the collars, the inner collar being screwed into the outer collar and forced with its lower flange against the lower flange of the outer collar. By means of the flange at its top theinner collar can be easily unscrewed from the strainer, after which the strainer-disk can be taken out and cleansed or replaced by a different one. The removal of the collar also permits of the thorough and easy cleansing of every particle of milk, &c., in all parts of the strainer.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States .In a milk-strainer, the combination of a cylindrical body, a screw-threaded sleevehaving a flange at its lower end, a screw-threaded collar having an inwardly-projecting flange at its lower end and an outwardly projecting flange at its upper end, and a disk of perfo rated material or wire-cloth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT LAWRENCE ANDERSON.

Witnesses:

FRANK LOCKHART, JACOB T. RAMSDELL. 

